They were arrested in a hotel at an undisclosed resort in Wiang Phang Kham subdistrict.

The smugglers told Chaing Rai police that they were members of a drug trafficking network operated by Myanmar narcotics kingpin Yi Say.

They smuggled the contraband drug across the border and evaded X-ray detection at the border crossing checkpoint. The drug shipment was intended to be carried to Malaysia where its street value could exceed Bt60 million.